On Micionyclci'.s microtis, Miller. 371 



Gallohehjicus typicus, sp. n. 



Ocliraccous; lieinelytr;i [Jiilc tuscous brown, witli the veins 

 ocliriiceous ; second joint of iintenruu narrowly creamy wliite 

 at base and apex ; eyes bhick ; femoia obscurely fuse jusly 

 annulate near apices, structural characters as in generic 

 diagnosis. 



Long. 5 mm. 



Hub. Ceylon; Peradeniya [E. E. Green). 



LIV. — Note on the Type Specimen of the Bat Mieronycteris 

 microtis, Miller. By MarcuS VV. LyoN, Jun. 



AfiCRONTCTEitis MicitOTis was dcscribed by Mr. Gerrit S. 

 Miller, Jun.*, in 1898 from a single specimen, which is still 

 the only one known, in tiie collection of the United States 

 National IMuseum. Di'. Knud Andersen f has recently raise 1 

 the question as to whether the ears of the type are damaged. 

 The following history of the ty[)e, part of wiiieh was probably 

 not known to Mr. Miller, and remarks on the ears may prove 

 of interest. 



The specimen, an adult male, now a skin and skull, U.S. 

 National Museum number ^^^, was collected at Gi-eytown, 

 Nicaragua, by Dr. L. F. H. Birt ; date of collecting not 

 known. It was entered in the National Museum Catalogue 

 on February 2, 1889, as an alcoholic, and the skull was 

 catalogued on April 16, 1889. There is no record showing 

 at what time the alcoholic was made into a skin. The wing- 

 membranes are considerably torn and some hair has slipped 

 from the lower back and abdomen, but otherwise the skin is 

 in good condition. The skull is perfect. The colour-value 

 of the skin is much lessened by the fact that it was immersed 

 for an unknown time in alcohol or other preserving fluid. 

 The basal portions of the hairs of Mlcronycteris megalotis are 

 pure white. They were probably so in M. microtis, but the 

 preserving fluid has apparently darkened them to a dirty 

 white. The ears of the type of M. microtis measure, from 

 meatus to apex, 12 mm., and the greatest breadth is 8 mm. 

 The corresponding measurements in the skin of an adult 

 male, U.S. National Museum Catalogue number 102913, 

 from La Guaira, Venezuela, are 20 mm. and 12 mm. respec- 



* Tree. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1898, p. 328 (July 12, 1898). 

 t Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 7, vol. xviii. (July 190(3; p. o-j, footnote. 



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